I have no idea where those quotes cam from . I adored the first few books.( at least the first two ) but while I read the ( 4th?) I wanted to throw it across the room. I was bored and frustrated. so I might have missed the parts about the chicken
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
beth b - Nov 25, 2006 8:38:23 pm PST #1598 of 28461
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Strix - Nov 26, 2006 6:39:16 am PST #1599 of 28461
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, I remember the evil chicken! I think it actually was in book one. I read the first 4 or 5 books, but then they just got terribly tedious and uninteresting, and I am a lover of the long series of books.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 7:20:40 am PST #1600 of 28461
Art Crawl!!!
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet? (And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
Kate Elliott has a new book out too.
Ouise - Nov 29, 2006 9:12:24 am PST #1601 of 28461
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Has anyone read Bujold's The Sharing Knife yet?
I'm sorry to say that I didn't like it that much. Not that I disliked it, exactly, it was just unsubstantial and not very original. I think that what I most missed in comparison to her other books was energy - there was a certain placidity to it, even during action.
I didn't like The Hallowed Hunt much either, which makes me nervous.
Nicklas - Nov 29, 2006 2:06:02 pm PST #1602 of 28461
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
And she's going to write a new Vorkosigan novel!!!
FINALLY! I will get drunk right now celebrating this. Ehh, It's late, I'll celebrate tomorrow.
Consuela - Nov 29, 2006 3:13:40 pm PST #1603 of 28461
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay, new Vorkosigan! Is it the long-awaited Ivan novel? Because Ivan totally needs a book to himself, in which he gets swept off his feet by
me some Galactic hottie.
meara - Nov 29, 2006 3:13:57 pm PST #1604 of 28461
I did read Sharing Knife--I was a little annoyed by the ending, cause it was very "OK, and now on to the next book!" and didn't feel particularily wrapped up, if you will. But I enjoyed it, a little more than the Hallowed Hunt ones, I think, though it felt...lighter? more fluffy (though the subject matter wasn't, especially)?
Haven't read the new Elliot--can anyone say, is it more like her Jaran books, or more like her other series? Cause I tried to get into the other one, and just couldn't.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 4:32:57 pm PST #1605 of 28461
Art Crawl!!!
I haven't read either (yet).
I loved the first book of the Crown of Stars series - - but the rest didn't quite live up to it. (I'm not done yet.) I think I liked the dogs. . .
I need to reread the Jaran series. It's been forever.
Connie Neil - Nov 29, 2006 4:38:19 pm PST #1606 of 28461
brillig
I loved the first book of the Crown of Stars series
I read several volumes of that series but stopped when the guy who had the power over the dogs had too many bad things happen to him for my taste.
I loved the theory of the division of government and religion by gender, though.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2006 4:43:21 pm PST #1607 of 28461
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anyone hear reading the Wheel of Time series? I used to be getting it from the library, but I don't remember where I stopped (and synopses don't help).
Is it done? What happened?